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By GEORGE WASHINGTON
As told to Bruce Sloane
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
It is with humility and fond remembrance that I look back upon my association with what you call the Town of Washington, and I thank you for the opportunity you have proffered to me to comment on the 200th anniversary of this fair town.
In my time, these estates were part of the Northern Neck of Virginia, and included more than 5,700,000 acres of land south of the Potomac River. They were owned by Thomas Fairfax, sixth Lord and Baron of Cameron, a noble gentleman who through the years of our mutual relationships was my employer, friend, companion, and advisor. Indeed, our relationship started as a familial and intimate one when my half-brother, Lawrence was joined in’holy matrimony with Lord Fairfax's second cousin Anne.
In my youth I had desired a career on the high seas, but my mother's foresight and wisdom convinced me to be a surveyor. I first met Lord Fairfax in 1747. At that time my Lord, because of the pressing need of Virginia settlers, was planning to establish manors throughout his domain, and promised me, a strapping lad of 17 years, employment as a surveyor.
So it was that several months later I traveled by horseback to the several log cabins scattered in the wilds and woods of the foothill of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
With the help of my two chainman we surveyed, named, and laid out, for the pre
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